STRANGER AT HOME

Four years. That&rsquo,s how long it took Californian playboy Michael Vickers to regain his memory and come home. Four years. That&rsquo,s how long Vickers spent battered, bruised and south of the border, following the attack which sought to end his life &ndash, all because he&rsquo,d mistaken a mortal enemy for a friend. Or a lover. And now Vickers is looking for four years&rsquo, worth of payback from the devil responsible for his near-demise. But within days of Vickers&rsquo, return, a murder attempt is made on one of his suspects &ndash, and this time it succeeds. Enter a very shrewd detective, whose eyes are on everyone. Especially Vickers. In Stranger at Home, the second George Sanders mystery novel, we are taken to a world removed from the backstage comic mystery of Crime on My Hands, but nonetheless a milieu very familiar to the actor &ndash, Southern California in the 1940&rsquo,s. A world of stars and millionaires, but also vice, organized crime and shattered dreams. And Michael Vickers himself is a hero very much after the mould of Sanders&rsquo, irresistibly attractive screen persona &ndash, gilded and charming, languid and pleasure-seeking... but with a steely, remorseless core._,